Forget 4K; 8K Laptops and PCs to become a reality by 2016

8K displays will support a resolution of 7680 X 4320 pixels. This feature is achieved by compressing the video feed to squeeze more data. Tablets and smartphones with 4K are yet to go mainstream. But the moot question is, is there any need of 4K or 8K displays? Since its pretty hard for the human eye to differentiate pixels on a small screen? Resource :Display Port. source: www.techworm.net

February 10, 2015 · 1 min · 68 words · Andrew Long

Newsweek Twitter Account Hacked by ISIS Affiliated Hacker Cyber Caliphate

The news outlet confirmed the hack and said it had regained control of the account. Now everything seems well under control with Newsweek making this tweet just minutes before we went to press. source: www.techworm.net

February 10, 2015 · 1 min · 35 words · Sandra Hill

OpISIS; Anonymous takes down 1800 Twitter accounts & 12 Facebook pages of ISIS supporters

The OpISIS was announced after the brutal killings of 12 people in Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. It grandly stated that You will be treated like a virus, and we are the cure. We own the Internet. source: www.techworm.net

February 10, 2015 · 1 min · 39 words · Tina Rice

WhatsSpy Public : WhatsApp status tool lets stalkers track you bypassing privacy settings

Social apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Hike, Instagram etc. WhatsSpy Public has been created by Maikel Zweerink, who started working on it as a hobby. WhatsSpy Public can record the profile picture and privacy options for the status messages when turning it on. Zweerink says he released the tool onGitLabas a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the weakness in WhatsApp in terms of privacy. Zweerink said that his only motive behind this project was to realise how broken the privacy options actually are....

February 10, 2015 · 1 min · 105 words · Gina Simpson

Facebook can identify your face from any image with Deep Face

Facebook is claiming good intentions with the Deep Face program. Thetechnology behind Deep Faceis actually very intriguing. How they go about this will be interesting and should be watched carefully. source: www.techworm.net

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 32 words · Adam Clark

Kickass Torrent website taken down after domain seizure

The .To domain belong to Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, a Polynesian sovereign state. source: www.techworm.net

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 17 words · Isaac Gonzalez

Leaked docs say HSBC profited from arms dealers, blood diamond traffickers, and other international outlaws

Falciani had to flee to France to avoid victimisation from the banking higher ups. The leaks were made public through a report byInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which was released yesterday. The documents contain records of some 30,000 accounts kept at HSBCs Swiss subsidiary between 2005 and 2007. HSBC secret customers included corrupt businessmen, dictators, arms industry officials and high-end criminals. Among the high profile customers is the former ANZ Bank chairman Charles Goode....

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 140 words · Michael Sweeney

Man places order for MacBook for $450 on eBay, gets a photo of MacBook

He was left devastated when he received a photocopy picture of the laptop instead of getting an Apple MacBook. Adding to the insult was the photocopy picture was not even a color one(sic.) The man wanted to start a business. He wanted to be a wedding DJ and needed the laptop to make it download the appropriate software. So he sold his precious surfboard to pay for this venture into uncharted waters....

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 206 words · Laura Bailey

Online Gamer Raided by SWAT Team in front of 60000 viewers

Joshua Peters, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a avid gamer, who lives in St. William Anderson, St. Cloud Chief of Police, confirmed the incident to ABC News and is under investigation. Peters earns a living by streaming his sessions ofClash of ClansandRuneScape. Before ending the stream, Koopatroopa787 addressed his attacker, I see you posting my address. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you....

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 140 words · Miguel Armstrong

Syrian Electronic Army leaks classified data from Saudi Arabia and Turkish Government and Military

They also said that more leaks were coming and the same will be published on their website. Techworm asked SEA for the reason behind making the stolen data public. source: www.techworm.net

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 31 words · Timothy Cowan

Xiaomi dragged to court by Ericsson in India; AGAIN

The order restricts Xiaomi to sell and market in India fabricated with Qualcomm chips only. However Xiaomi says the store has nothing to do with it. Ajit Warrier, Xiaomi lawyer says that the company has no stake in the website. The phones are being sold by third parties over whom Xiaomi does not have any control, noted Warrier. The investigator will submit report at a hearing on March 18. Xiaomi is looking forward to deepen its operation in Asian region....

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 82 words · Carol Daniels

Xnote the new multi-purpose backdoor targets Linux servers and converts them into botnets

Once installed on the Linux driven machine, the trojan checks for a copy of itself on the machine. The malware then tries to hide itself by deleting the original launch file. Both the backdoor and the server use the library zlib to compress the packets they exchange. It also adds a script that will launch it automatically each time after the machine is rebooted. Once a connection to one of the servers is established, information is exchanged between them in compressed packets....

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · 109 words · Ronald Mcmahon

A workaround for watching Netflix on Windows 10 Technical Preview version

This was brought to the notice by a Redditor Occams Razor on aReddit thread. The problem seems to arise out of User Agent assigned on Windows 10. The SIP protocol (based on HTTP) followed this usage. However Occams Razor has found out a workaround for the problem. After a quick familiarization in a VM, I upgraded my existing Windows 7 Enterprise install on my laptop. Pretty cool so far. SoWednesdaynight, I log into Netflix and watch a bit of Archer without issue....

February 8, 2015 · 1 min · 187 words · David Matthews